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Howto install InfluxDB and Grafana on a Raspberry Pi 3

Inspired by a friend I’ve decided to install InfluxDB and Grafana on my Raspberry Pi 3. InfluxDB is a database optimized for storing time related data like measurements of my recently installed particle sensor. Grafana is used to create beautiful graphs to display the stored data.

This will install the InfluxDB without a user and any rights. You can read up further on that topic. Ideally you should setup an user for authentication but since some IoT devices do not support this I’m not going to explain it here.

The Grafana installation is similar simple:

Please make sure that you’ll get the most current version from github and replace it in the wget command: